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] | 2016-08-26T13:19:09 | null | null | A science team planning to hunker down in Bull Pass in Antarctica’s central McMurdo Dry Valleys would today receive a fairly simplistic map to help it protect the fragile ecosystem. Recent work will ensure that 21st century mapping technology catches up with environmental management and protection of Antarctica. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1863.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/media/grafx/icon-flag.gif | en | null | Drawing the line | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Nate Biletnikoff Jeff Scanniello uses a high-precision GPS to help geo-reference a satellite map of the McMurdo Dry Valleys. The new detailed maps will help manage and protect the fragile environment, which is used by scientists for a variety of biological and geological research, among other studies.
Dra... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=1863 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/93b32ae91655fef7bb832b3149441a0ef3e482c6bf1136ee7b767aeb7d388ab7.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T13:25:52 | null | null | Researchers have spent the last two field seasons tracking and studying Weddell seals on the sea ice near McMurdo Station for a project asking a very fundamental question about the world’s southernmost mammal: Do seals get cold? | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2806.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/media/grafx/icon-flag.gif | en | null | Cold Enough for You? (page 1) | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Henry Kaiser Jo-Ann Mellish, far right, helps measure a female adult Weddell seal that other researchers are outfitting with instruments to measure the amount of heat transferred across the animal’s body to the air. That data will help them understand how such animals regulate body temperature in a polar ... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=2806 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/5c051429239128af028bbfeba28498fd8038fbc2a173359efaf7a531e59f420e.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T13:24:04 | null | null | One of the enduring theories of how Antarctica initially entered a deep freeze about 34 million years ago has taken some knocks over the years, but a recent paper in the journal Geology may eventually blow the doors off the so-called gateway hypothesis. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2888.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images4/scotia-sea-today.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Ian Dalziel The central Scotia Sea between South America and the Antarctic Peninsula where a volcanic island arc may once have existed that possibly impeded the formation of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current.
Unhinged
New paper challenges gateway hypothesis for Antarctic glaciation
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"Special To The"
] | 2016-08-26T13:06:40 | null | null | On a cold, windy Sunday on Ross Island, most residents of McMurdo Station were enjoying the shelter of a warm building and hot food. Not everyone was there. A few braved headwinds and crosswinds, uneven snow, blinding sun reflecting off ice, and capricious weather to run the 20th annual McMurdo Marathon. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D4125.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/features/images6/marathon-station.jpg | en | null | Running Down a Dream (page 1) | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Sage Asher More than 60 people participated in the McMurdo Marathon in January 2015. People both run and ski the event, which included a half and full marathon, along with a new ultra-marathon leg for a total of 31 miles.
Running down a dream
McMurdo Marathon crosses a milestone and finishes strong with n... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=4125 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/8786b3c2629ba377aaa87d21078dda83798f1e70d17be3831b46c9104800f53c.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T13:21:33 | null | null | Teacher Glen Schulte traveled to Palmer Station with a team of scientists as a way of introducing his students to the biology of Antarctica. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2FcontentHandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1219.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/features/images/schulte (top image).jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Courtesy of Glen Schulte A surprise offer gave Glen Schulte an opportunity to expand his classroom via the Internet and a trip to Antarctica.
Lessons from the Ice
Teacher Glen Schulte travels to Palmer Station to teach students in Cincinnati about a bug's life in Antarctica
Ten months ago, I was sitting a... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contentHandler.cfm?id=1219 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/219df0782e6b9108d85cf9504aea390078eebcef5fe5e503470e72abaa332ea0.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T13:19:11 | null | null | Oona Stern has built her career as an installation artist in urban and suburban environments. On the surface, then, there’s not much to suggest what might interest the New York-based artist in Antarctic ice. But she sees ice as yet another type of structure to study. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1835.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/features/images/oona_art.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Cheryl Leonard A bird's eye view of Oona Stern sketching natural features around Palmer Station on the Antarctic Peninsula. The New York-based artist spent about a month at the station for a project funded by the National Science Foundation's Artists and Writers Program.
Ice structures Sculptor finds para... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=1835 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/6dd33a15e862dcb8f7326e8d47308eb6d412d5f2b02ba26b529517d39ac724c1.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T13:29:41 | null | null | A satellite launched by NASA in 2003 to keep an eye on the massive ice sheets that cover the polar regions will soon reach the end of its operational lifetime. Launch of a new satellite is about six years away. But NASA has a backup plan to cover the gap - Operation Ice Bridge. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1932.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/media/grafx/icon-flag.gif | en | null | NASA Ice Bridge | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: NASA The first flight of Operation Ice Bridge's Antarctic campaign flew Oct. 16, 2009, along the Amundsen Coast. The aircraft’s downward-looking Digital Mapping System camera captured images of sea ice from an altitude of about 6,000 meters.
NASA Ice Bridge Airborne campaign over Antarctica to continue cr... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=1932 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/8cc768c08641b76e9b6b6deeef1da2aef42c998306cda663970f3c5e0c536c2c.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T13:16:11 | null | null | Ten years ago, the idea to drive across more than 1,000 miles of Antarctic wilderness to resupply the South Pole Station with fuel and cargo was just an audacious idea. Today, two heavy vehicle trains are in operation, and engineers are testing robotic tractors and developing autonomous crevasse detection capabilities. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2650.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/features/images3/traverse_leverett_andyjager_2011.jpg | en | null | Keep on Truckin' (page 1) | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Andy Jager The South Pole Traverse makes its way up the Leverett Glacier in 2011. The 1,000-mile route between McMurdo and South Pole stations has become a key operation in the U.S. Antarctic Program over the last decade.
Keep on truckin' South Pole Traverse adds second train, tests robotic tractors
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"Dean Hancock",
"Special The"
] | 2016-08-26T13:14:37 | null | null | The fact that many on the research vessel LAURENCE M. GOULD had been through the Panama Canal before did nothing to diminish our sense of anticipation. Crossing that narrow ribbon of water and commerce that connects two great oceans is not something that one tends to shrug off. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2751.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/features/images3/panama-laying-out-lines.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Dean Hancock Ships enter the Gatun Locks in Panama Canal. The research vessel LAURENCE M. GOULD transited the canal en route to Punta Arenas, Chile, from Louisiana earlier this year. The trip through the canal is a well-orchestrated dance.
Passing through
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] | 2016-08-26T13:23:54 | null | null | Two high-profile studies, one funded by the National Science Foundation, published this week suggest the West Antarctic Ice Sheet has entered a stage of inevitable collapse, though the process make take centuries to unfold. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D3024.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images5/pine-island-glacier-26.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: James Yungel, NASA/Antarctic Photo Library The calving front of the Thwaites Ice Shelf in West Antarctica. Scientists announced this week that ice melt in the region has reached a tipping point. They say global sea level is certain to rise in the coming centuries.
Unstoppable
Two high-profile studies: Col... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=3024 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/f0daa60c93198ddcedaeffb17c2ed3129d3cf4f140ee164787371d8ecd3e6103.json |
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"Katharine Coles",
"Special To The"
] | 2016-08-26T13:16:56 | null | null | Poet Katharine Coles went to Palmer Station on an Antarctic Artists and Writers grant from the National Science Foundation. What compelled her to go? She answers as only a poet can: Truth, of course. Cheek-to-cheek contact with the sublime. Insight into the nature of reality. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2494.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/features/images2/kate_coat_suan_moran.jpg | en | null | The art of science | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Susan Moran Katharine Coles hikes on a glacier near Palmer Station. The poet finds overlapping goals between science and poetry. Both seek insight into the nature of reality, she says.
The art of science Poet seeks 'cheek-to-cheek contact with the sublime'
Where I am now (Salt Lake City, July), we are hav... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=2494 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/79910a08e1cabbd2b065c983c2728d1f18cdbfb4e0aa981eae32f57024f7bd77.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:20:32 | null | null | The National Science Foundation (NSF) is looking to boost its 2009 fiscal year (FY) budget by about 13 percent over the current budget year, with a request for $6.85 billion. The total budget request for the Office of Polar Programs (OPP) is a shade over $490 million, an 11 percent increase over OPP’s estimated FY 2008... | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2FcontentHandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1358.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/features/images/oden_and_tern.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Chris Demarest/Antarctic Photo Library The Swedish icebreaker Oden, left, and the cargo ship American Tern at the McMurdo Station ice pier on Feb. 11, 2008. The NSF has proposed funding for science activities aboard the Oden next season.
NSF seeks $6.85 billion for FY09 Office of Polar Programs proposes m... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contentHandler.cfm?id=1358 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/2ea1c1c5472903fa2d926f75e2c2edc3348035b6fd5680ccb3d8d3ac19110dc5.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:27:47 | null | null | Paleontologists spent weeks in Antarctica flying and hiking among the peaks and outcrops of the continent's longest mountain range to collect the rare and unusual bones of vertebrates that once burrowed and bounded across a much different landscape — including at least one never before found on the southernmost landmas... | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2404.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/media/grafx/icon-globe.gif | en | null | Dawn of an Age (page 1) | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Chris Sidor Scientist Roger Smith displays part of an archosauromorph called Prolacerta that was discovered this season at Graphite Peak. It's one of the few and most complete specimens of this type of early dinosaur ancestor ever found.
Dawn of an age Early Triassic fossils provide clues to the rise of m... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=2404 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/c41f71d48660a71389f80a24ac196832db9e20322c53aaeab37792f62eeaf094.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:30:28 | null | null | Scientists Douglas Wilson and Bruce Luyendyk haven’t found the lost continent of Atlantis, but their discovery that far more of West Antarctica may have existed above sea level millions of years ago could help solve one of the great mysteries in the climate history of the continent. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1876.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images/shipsonar.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Bruce Luyendyk The RVIB Nathaniel B. Palmer conducts research in front of the Ross Ice Shelf in the Ross Sea in 2004. Luyendyk and Wilson were aboard the vessel for work related to their interest in the tectonic history of the continent, which they recently reported had more land above sea level millions ... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=1876 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/ff4084642360eb96731b81764f6b50ebac2eb63d0a0d343f77572173d63da491.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T13:24:24 | null | null | Antarctic sea ice extent in mid-August reached a record or near-record level high at 18.7 million square kilometers. The positive growth of total sea ice extent around Antarctica, which averages 18 million square kilometers at the height of winter, is part of a long-term trend. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2889.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images4/nasa-icebridge-bellingshausen-sea-ice.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Michael Studinger/NASA Sea ice in the Bellingshausen Sea seen from NASA's DC-8 aircraft flying at 1,500 ft above ground. Total sea ice extent around Antarctica reach a record or near-record high in August 2013, part of a long-term trend.
Spreading out
Antarctic sea ice nears record extent once again
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] | 2016-08-26T13:29:37 | null | null | An international team of scientists used high-resolution satellite imagery to trace the most accurate map to date of Antarctica’s grounding line, which is a key step in helping determine how much of the continent’s ice is contributing to sea-level rise. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2231.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images/edge_lines.jpg | en | null | Traced from space | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: NASA This satellite image shows a portion of a new map of Antarctic’s ice edge. Where ice extends beyond the edge of the continent, the map shows the grounding line, the point where the ice sheet separates from land and begins to float on the ocean. The red line is the new analysis, while the previous bes... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=2231 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/84d403c0fa4daed6f8d931c2ee24e94f11d6efdafb0605ffec7b3262aafe2986.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T13:32:59 | null | null | Paul Mayewski and colleagues from three other institutions completed a month-long overland traverse of a short stretch of East Antarctica in mid-January as part of the United States component of the International Trans Antarctic Scientific Expedition (ITASE). Twenty nations comprise ITASE, a cooperative effort to descr... | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2FcontentHandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1227.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/science/images/ITASE Welch with radar (top image).jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Dan Dixon Brian Welch operates the ITASE deep radar system during the group's traverse of East Antarctica to study environmental change.
Scientists traverse East Antarctica for ice cores
Antarctic science requires many different methods in the pursuit of knowledge about the seventh continent and its place... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contentHandler.cfm?id=1227 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/a63c4f7db147c5c37116c840d23d7daf98ea710aafc65c50792988c1b34ae14c.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T13:22:56 | null | null | The name alone evokes a certain mystery on a continent riddled with enigmas. Blood Falls, however, is slowly giving up its secrets. A team of scientists and engineers sent a probe into the cold ice of Taylor Glacier in the first feat of its kind and extracted super salty samples of water from the main vein that feeds t... | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D4122.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images6/taylor-glacier-blood-falls-steppes.jpg | en | null | Lifeblood of a Glacier (page 1) | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Lifeblood of a glacier
Probe melts its way into river of ice to retrieve brine that feeds red-stained feature
The name alone evokes a certain mystery on a continent riddled with enigmas.
Jill Mikucki
Blood Falls, however, is slowly giving up its secrets. A team of scientists and engineers sent a probe into the cold ice... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=4122 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/24988f3be5baf3ac476718d9e7a9d53a5f90f78482fa683d15e67f525bf9aedc.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T13:15:29 | null | null | Paul Jones spent 36 years in the same high school classroom. The year before his retirement he took a field assignment on the Ice with the Teachers Experiencing Antarctica program. Fast forward about 15 years and Jones, 72, is back at McMurdo Station but as a water plant operator. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2856.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/features/images4/MCM_HELO_TOWN2.JPG | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Peter Rejcek Iowa resident Paul Jones monitors the McMurdo Station water plant during the 2012-13 summer field season. A former science educator, Jones first traveled to the Ice in 1997 to participate in the National Science Foundation-sponsored program, Teachers Experiencing Antarctica.
Water works
Forme... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=2856 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/7c0f84444539b711891b57879642f94377cb7bfc1f90e043e20cc042a8f69327.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T13:28:37 | null | null | New research from scientists at the University of Washington suggests that rising sea surface temperatures in the area of the Pacific Ocean along the equator and near the International Date Line drive atmospheric circulation that has caused some of the largest shifts in Antarctic climate in recent decades. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2413.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/media/grafx/button-top.gif | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Peter Rejcek/Antarctic Photo Library The western Antarctic Peninsula, West Antarctica, which has become one of the fastest warming regions on the planet. A new study suggests rising sea surface temperatures in the Pacific cause changes in atmospheric circulation that affect the climate in West Antarctica.... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=2413 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/4ec16fd75e45cf10bd391a2a656b083f09e31c6dd6304381d47a3e86e9eb464c.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T13:26:05 | null | null | It took a month to prepare for a week’s worth of work at the National Ice Core Laboratory. It was a long time in coming.
But the final sections of ice core from the West Antarctic Ice Sheet Divide were sliced and diced in mid-June, with samples of ancient ice destined for labs across the country to analyze the paleocl... | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2703.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/media/grafx/icon-flag.gif | en | null | Processed and packaged | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Peter Rejcek A section of ice core from the WAIS Divide borehole awaits processing at the National Ice Core Laboratory. About 75 meters of ice from the bottom of the hole arrived in Denver earlier this month. Samples will be sent all over the country.
Processed and packaged Last cores from WAIS Divide bor... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=2703 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/21caaf7472e076d48246bae145a3d4189f1c3ed5401fee339a9ff74b9276b955.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T13:18:57 | null | null | The packaging on sundry items like paper towels and glass cleaner is in Spanish. The wine bottles in the store carry Chilean labels. The avocadoes are also from South America. All signs that the logistics link to Palmer Station from the United States is very different from the rest of the U.S. Antarctic Program. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2047.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/features/images/cargo%20warehouse.jpg | en | null | Moving to a different beat | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Peter Rejcek Jon Brack moves a pallet of gas cylinders next to the pier so they can be loaded onto a boat. Brack is part of the two-person logistics department at Palmer Station that is responsible for moving and tracking materials to, from and around the station.
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"Lane Patterson",
"Special To The"
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] | 2016-08-26T13:12:42 | null | null | The skies above McMurdo Station once again buzzed briefly with activity, as the prologue operation to the 2013-14 summer field season in Antarctica made five successful flights in August and September. The next plane won’t be until Oct. 3, when a Royal New Zealand Air Force B-757 touches down. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2894.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/features/images4/WISSARD-antarctica-subglacial-lake-whillans-scientist-tool.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Gareth Weaver Cargo is unloaded from an Australian Antarctic Division Airbus A319 at Pegasus Airfield on Sept. 8. Three flights brought about 100 people to McMurdo Station in the first week of September. The summer field season begins Oct. 3.
Season opener
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] | 2016-08-26T13:24:41 | null | null | To catch the elusive subatomic particles called neutrinos is not just a matter of building a better mousetrap. You need a really, really BIG mousetrap. Scientists at the South Pole hope to construct a 100-square-kilometer neutrino detector to capture the highest energy neutrinos theorized to exist. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2916.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images4/icecube-observatory-11-16-2012.jpg | en | null | A Bigger Mousetrap (page 1) | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Jeffrey Donenfeld The ARA field camp at the South Pole is set up to deploy a station that will eventually be used to detect high-energy neutrinos.
A bigger mousetrap
New neutrino detector prototype at South Pole goes after highest energy particles
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:15:11 | null | null | An instrument used by New Zealand scientists and their collaborators to study sea ice in the polar regions may prove to be a useful piece of technology to save time and labor for the U.S. Antarctic Program in checking the safety of its Sea Ice Runway at McMurdo Station. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2952.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/features/images5/antnz-helo-em-instrument.jpg | en | null | Additional safety check | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Peter Rejcek A helicopter flies the HEM bird over the Sea Ice Runway earlier this month. The HEM bird, used by New Zealand scientists to determine sea ice thickness, employs a technique called electromagnetic induction, along with a laser altimeter, to make the measurement.
Additional safety check
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] | 2016-08-26T13:15:16 | null | null | Anthony Powell has been working on his documentary about the world’s coldest continent for about a decade now. Finally, Antarctica: A Year on Ice will start hitting movie theaters this summer. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2844.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/features/images4/Black-Island-Winter-Traverse-Panorama.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Anthony Powell Sound engineers at Park Road studio in New Zealand perform the final sound mix for Anthony Powell's documentary, 'Antarctica: A Year on Ice.' The film will be released this summer after a decade in the making.
Final countdown
Powell wraps up Year on Ice documentary about Antarctica
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] | 2016-08-26T13:32:05 | null | null | A decade after using an Earth-observing satellite to image Antarctica to create the first high-resolution mosaic of the continent, Ken Jezek hopes the world’s space agencies will pull together their spaceborne resources to map the cryosphere in unprecedented detail and breadth. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1433.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/science/images/bprc_jezek2.JPG | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: NASA The first high-resolution satellite mosaic of Antarctica was created by Byrd Polar Research Center in collaboration with the Canadian Space Agency. The image revealed features never seen before, such as ice streams some 800 kilometers long. The whole picture Jezek wants space agencies to pull togethe... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=1433 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/091ee4cdc1a9b8efbf6d023e088570dcba6032aea01d95d0def19c8f51dc581b.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T13:17:42 | null | null | The Antarctic and the city of Detroit: These two places, separated by more than 9,000 miles and residing in different hemispheres, would seem to be far apart from one another in more ways than just geography. Yet filmmakers John Major and Frida Waara see a common message between the white continent and one of America’s... | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2355.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/media/grafx/icon-flag.gif | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Peter Rejcek A lone tractor crawls along the sea ice in front of the Royal Society Range across from McMurdo Station. Filmmakers John Major and Frida Waara want to compare life in the Antarctic against inner city Detroit in a project sponsored by the National Science Foundation.
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] | 2016-08-26T13:32:55 | null | null | A two-month science cruise aboard the Research Vessel Icebreaker Nathaniel B. Palmer called Sea Ice Mass Balance in the Antarctic (SIMBA) set out in September 2007 to characterize a sea ice ecosystem off the coast of West Antarctica. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1293.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/science/images/SIMBA ice coring (thumb).jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: SIMBA Belgian researchers on the SIMBA science cruise prepare gear for use on an ice floe. An International Polar Year Project, SIMBA is a study after information about what role sea ice plays in global climate processes.
Finding the balance
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] | 2016-08-26T13:16:24 | null | null | It’s no secret that the South Pole in Antarctica is one of the coldest places on Earth. But this year it got really cold faster than ever, breaking a 30-year-old record for the earliest the temperature has dropped below minus 100 degrees Fahrenheit, reaching the mark on April 7, 2012. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2643.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/features/images3/pole_scroll_temp.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Carlos Pobes/Antarctic Photo Library The moon rises over the South Pole Telescope on April 5, a couple of days before the temperature plunged below minus 100 degrees Fahrenheit on April 7 (local time), the earliest it had reached the mark.
Cold front South Pole hits minus 100F mark earliest ever in the wi... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=2643 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/76d4cf4b483b76c3d791f6f8f20513c39755710665d03fde5fb190e281c6ee71.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T13:25:03 | null | null | West Antarctica is heating up and is among the most rapidly warming regions on the planet. That’s the conclusion of a team of scientists who analyzed and reconstructed a 50-year climate record that showed average temperatures have risen by as much as 3 degrees Celsius. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2786.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images4/Byrd2010b.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Charles Bentley Byrd Station in 1957 with Aurora Tower emerging from the roof of the buried living quarters. Temperature records taken at the site since the 1950s show a significant increase in West Antarctic temperature.
Trending up
Weather data show West Antarctica heating up over last 50 years
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[] | 2016-08-26T13:12:37 | null | null | Suddenly, it was there. The U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker POLAR STAR made a slow, steady circle around the sea ice in McMurdo Sound. It hadn't taken long for the heavy ice breaker to reach McMurdo Station through nine miles of sea ice – though it has been seven years since a USCG icebreaker has been fit for that duty. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2969.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/features/images5/coast-guard-mcmurdo-sound2.jpg | en | null | Return to duty | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Peter Rejcek Return to duty Icebreaker Polar Star first U.S. Coast Guard ship to McMurdo since 2006-07 Suddenly, it was there. The U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker Polar Star , above, like it had so many times in the past, made a slow, steady circle around the sea ice in McMurdo Sound, widening an existing are... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=2969 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/79d642de3ae3202bc0429baf0e1c9e9e4e461912e45270a5c48031de4231f1e8.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:29:53 | null | null | The ice bridge is gone. Now ice bergs are calving off the new front. But the Wilkins Ice Shelf is still hanging on, and Ted Scambos at the National Snow and Ice Data Center said he believes small bits of the West Antarctic ice shelf could survive for several more years. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1762.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/media/grafx/icon-globe.gif | en | null | Wilkins Ice Shelf | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: National Snow and Ice Data Center The Wilkins Ice Shelf before, left, and after the ice bridge collapsed in earlier April. The ice bridge had become superfluous to the integrity of the remaining ice shelf by the time it shattered, said NSIDC scientists Ted Scambos.
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] | 2016-08-26T13:32:11 | null | null | The Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets (CReSIS) is a National Science Foundation-funded Science and Technology Center. CReSIS pulls together some of the top scientists and engineers nationally and from abroad to solve the deficiencies in today’s ice sheet models through developing new technologies and field resear... | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1324.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/science/images/Cresis skiing1.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Sridhar Anandakrishnan/CReSIS Pennsylvania State University graduate students Huw Horgan, left, and Paul Winberry perform field work last summer in Greenland for the CReSIS project. Another group, mainly from Penn State, is working in Antarctica this year in preparation for a large field season in 2008-09... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=1324 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/368705874a63e7c5ad6231624b50c536e0319fc3b405987c800a0e6c2d4cdaf2.json |
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"Michael Lucibella"
] | 2016-08-26T12:53:52 | null | null | For one afternoon in December, McMurdo’s dining hall was transformed into a small bazaar of handmade wares. At the annual December Craft Fair, station residents gathered to display and swap the arts and crafts projects they’ve been working on during their off-hours. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D4194.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/features/images6/crafts-penguins.jpg | en | null | McMurdo's Crafty Side | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Michael Lucibella Liz Sutter shows off her hand-knit hats to Maj. Joshua Hicks.
McMurdo's Crafty Side
For one afternoon in December, McMurdo’s dining hall was transformed into a small bazaar of handmade wares.
Photo Credit: Michael Lucibella Amy Pashov demonstrates how she spins wool into yarn.
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] | 2016-08-26T13:31:57 | null | null | Mike Comberiate and his team of engineers and students are using a small robotic vehicle to test a host of systems that NASA may use in future missions to the moon and Mars, as well as in more immediate operations like a maintenance flight to the Hubble Space Telescope. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1335.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/science/images/NASA robot Mike.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Peter Rejcek Steve Strasburg prepares the NASAbot for a demonstration at McMurdo Station. The robotic vehicle carries a number of systems that NASA wants to test for eventual use on missions to the moon and Mars.
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] | 2016-08-26T13:20:15 | null | null | Team McChord Airmen assigned to the Expeditionary Airlift Squadron in support of Operation Deep Freeze has completed four operational C-17 Globemaster III airdrops to the Antarctic Gamburtsev Mountain Province since last month. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2FcontentHandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1640.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/features/images/AIRDROPCARGO_1.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Forest Banks/Antarctic Photo Library A C-17 Globemaster III drops cargo over the South Pole in December 2007. The plane has been used this year to drop fuel and cargo to an East Antarctic field camp, expediting the delivery of necessary supplies for a project studying a subglacial mountain range.
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] | 2016-08-26T13:20:56 | null | null | Morton Beebe and Geoffrey Lee Martin shared in the adventure of the International Geophysical Year more than 50 years ago. Now they've reunited to write a book about one of the IGY's most pivotal figures — and hope to return to the Ice for a related movie project. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2FcontentHandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1667.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/features/images/beebe_pairyoung.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Geoffrey Lee Martin Geoffrey Lee Martin types out a newspaper story at Cape Royds, Antarctica, in January 1956. Lee Martin and Morton Beebe, two veterans of the International Geophysical Year, have reunited to tell a new story about the IGY and the current International Polar Year.
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] | 2016-08-26T12:56:40 | null | null | Spending a winter in Antarctica is just as challenging as it sounds. For the 45 people who remain at the South Pole Station through the cold and dark months this year, winter is a unique experience shared by a rare few. This year's crew by the numbers. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D4152.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/features/images6/pole-winter-flags.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Marissa Goerke Members of the 2015 South Pole Station winter-over crew remove the flags that encircle the ceremonial pole for the winter. The flags represent the original 12 nations that signed the Antarctic Treaty.
Numbers game
2015 South Pole winter-over crew includes new records for youth, longevity
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] | 2016-08-26T13:30:07 | null | null | Scientists studying climate change have long believed that while most of the globe has been getting steadily warmer, a large part of Antarctica — the East Antarctic Ice Sheet — has actually been getting colder. But new research shows that for the last 50 years, much of Antarctica has been warming at a rate comparable t... | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1686.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/media/grafx/icon-globe.gif | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: NASA/GSFC Scientific Visualization Studio This illustration depicts the warming that scientists have determined has occurred in West Antarctica during the last 50 years, with the dark red showing the area that has warmed the most. The NSF-funded study was recently published in the journal "Nature."
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] | 2016-08-26T13:23:59 | null | null | Winter at the South Pole always has its ups and downs, but the weather at the bottom of the world has been taking some wild swings this year. During the first week of June, the station set several daily records for both high and low temperatures, as well as one monthly record. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2860.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images4/May29-June8TempGraph.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Marie Mclane The moon creates a halo effect over the South Pole Station, where temperatures have been going to extremes. Twice this winter the station has recorded wild swings between record lows and highs.
Wild swings
South Pole temperatures roll between extremes, set new records
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] | 2016-08-26T13:16:45 | null | null | A rare white Christmas at the South Pole brought with it a record-breaking heat wave for a day. The temperature officially hit 9.9 degrees Fahrenheit about 3:50 p.m. on Dec. 25, shattering the old record by more than two degrees. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2563.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/features/images3/POLEAERIAL_02_03_10_1400.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Andrew V. Williams/Antarctic Photo Library The South Pole Station, which saw a record high of 9.9 degrees Fahrenheit on Christmas Day, shattering the previous record of 7.5F set 33 years ago. The warm temperatures were accompanied by a rare bit of snow.
Heat wave South Pole hits record high temperature on... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=2563 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/eece2a1d7c5de53e7e9ab916bc076edd43f70cb2d3877a8161dbfa37943810c5.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T13:12:09 | null | null | You won’t find a greater proselytizer about the world of waste than James VanMatre, except perhaps his own tight-knit crew in the U.S. Antarctic Program's Waste Department. It takes a huge effort to keep the continent clean, with the focus on getting waste on the annual resupply vessel. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D3027.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/features/images5/waste-fortress-rocks-metal.jpg | en | null | Taking Out the Trash (page 1) | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Peter Rejcek Waste Department recycling technician Travis Groh prepares a bin of trash in the Waste Barn for transportation off the continent in February by vessel. The Waste Department recycles up to 65 percent of all garbage generated in Antarctica.
Taking out the trash
Waste Department helps keep the c... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=3027 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/efd11fbf46a512fb45374d97c80e6685d0f27ebeef72527475217f906c724294.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:13:25 | null | null | Airmen from the 62nd and 446th Airlift Wings, deployed from Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington, completed a milestone event when they flew the 500th C-17 Globemaster III Special Assignment Airlift Mission into Antarctica in support of Operation Deep Freeze on Oct. 14, 2012. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2755.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/features/images3/C17MISSION500.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: U.S. Air Force/Antarctic Photo Library Military milestone U.S. Air Force marks 500th mission to Antarctica Airmen from the 62nd and 446th Airlift Wings, deployed from Joint Base Lewis-McChord , Washington, completed a milestone event when they flew the 500th C-17 Globemaster III Special Assignment Airlift... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=2755 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/09a91e6aedbfabcce0ad5783c314544bb1129c3956098ef9af9adf0a5204ec7f.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T13:30:41 | null | null | A joint team of Norwegian and American scientists spent more than three months in East Antarctica drilling ice cores, exploring subglacial lakes and taking measurements of the thick ice sheet to learn more about the past one thousand years of climate on the continent. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1758.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images/traverse_drill.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Stein Tronstad/Norwegian Polar Institute (NPI) Tom Neumann hand drills a shallow ice core on a relatively warm, sunny day on the East Antarctic ice sheet. The ice cores, some as deep as 90 meters, will help the scientists reconstruct the climate in Antarctica for the last 1,000 years.
IPY Traverse Overlan... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=1758 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/9f21b8205618c5efcaa591fe0f98f78fddc4ec5561fe87fd6bb89883e00e94c6.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T13:26:22 | null | null | If global temperatures continue to rise, an emperor penguin colony in East Antarctica may eventually disappear, according to a new study led by researchers from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. The team suggests that the decline of the Terre Adélie colony may be linked to shrinking sea ice. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2706.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images3/penguin_group750_231694.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Stephanie Jenouvrier/WHOI A group of emperor penguin adults make their way across sea ice in Terre Adélie in East Antarctica. The seabirds rely on sea ice for breeding and raising their young, but declines in sea ice from warmer temperature may be affecting the colony, according to new research.
Disappear... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=2706 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/234b393a64a0afc17519400025d1a60ebab6e001477e55db5407ec50fceb7c98.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T13:30:57 | null | null | Francis Halzen is no ordinary academic, even though his background is in theoretical physics, a realm of abstract reality where E=mc2 and Star Trek scriptwriters concoct warp drives and transporters. From his corner office in Madison, Wis., the 65-year-old scientist leads the largest single experiment on the continent ... | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1975.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/media/grafx/icon-globe.gif | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Peter Rejcek Francis Halzen at the IceCube project offices in Madison, Wis. Halzen has spent more than 20 years of his life in pursuit of the elusive neutrino. In two years, with completion of the IceCube detector at South Pole, that long quest may finally come to an end.
Big science Francis Halzen discus... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=1975 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/5cfbb191b38d9b32c54877d4b1243e399e57f2233dcf6509cea11ebac291b8d3.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T13:25:15 | null | null | The ice caves and towers that form where fissures on the flanks of Mount Erebus vent gas and steam offer a unique view into the inner workings of the volcano. Recent research into these steam-carved structures has found they are an important source of carbon dioxide gas emissions. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2760.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/media/grafx/icon-flag.gif | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Nial Peters Scientist Aaron Curtis descends into Sauna Cave on Mount Erebus. Curtis is conducting an ongoing survey of the dozens of ice caves along the flanks of the volcano. Research on the caves has linked the vents that feed into the subterranean structures to being a major source of carbon dioxide.
S... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=2760 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/df1eed036849c2ad5f7cb0432a4e477e7e645cfb940210c1f9ef658d3653ed95.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T13:30:02 | null | null | BBC and the Discovery Channel have teamed once again on a new documentary series. Filming on “Frozen Planet” began last year, and a team of filmmakers will head to McMurdo Station and beyond this summer field season with the support of the National Science Foundation. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1911.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/media/grafx/icon-flag.gif | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Chadden Hunter A BBC cameraman films king penguins on sub-Antarctic South Georgia Island in the southern Atlantic Ocean. The shoot is part of a new documentary series called Frozen Planet, which will cover the polar regions, with filming moving to USAP research stations and field camps this year.
Frozen P... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=1911 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/0dfd43cc585da46b1792b3870c2fb303507a2d4d3d145b141f48eafa181c30e4.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T13:27:55 | null | null | An international team of scientists working in the remotest part of Antarctica have discovered that liquid water locked deep under the continent’s ice sheet regularly thaws and refreezes to the bottom. The finding turns common perceptions of glacial formation upside down, with implications for how the ice will react to... | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2377.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images/agap_flags.jpg | en | null | Frozen at the bottom | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: British Antarctic Survey
Frozen at the bottom AGAP scientists turn understanding of ice sheet dynamics upside down
Scientists working in the remotest part of Antarctica have discovered that liquid water locked deep under the continent’s coat of ice regularly thaws and refreezes to the bottom, creating as ... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=2377 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/8c5afef8b6e641e519b24b4fa68c78a9c3ba15e3dc12b1a8777dc2ceb30f67a8.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T13:23:57 | null | null | A study by researchers using data from the IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the South Pole reveals new information that may help unravel the longstanding mystery about the origins of cosmic rays. The research draws on data collected by IceCube's surface array called IceTop. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2893.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images4/icecube_icetop_buttonup.jpg | en | null | Coming out on top | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Peter Rejcek James Roth with the University of Delaware reattaches a sun shade over one of the IceTop tanks, which are part of a surface array of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory. IceTop is being used to make discoveries about high-energy cosmic ray particles.
Coming out on top
IceCube surface array makes... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=2893 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/80ba5f304226b513b5bdb677aceeda9e3e6e326456cf7d03023ea75c342d54dc.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T13:31:35 | null | null | A team of scientists discovered three years ago that icebergs are hotspots of biological activity. The researchers are returning to the Weddell Sea to further investigate this phenomenon and to determine its potential for removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1424.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/science/images/iceberg_birds.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Rob Sherlock Researcher Ken Smith, right, led an expedition in 2005 to study Antarctic icebergs using a multidisciplinary approach that included examining life beneath the icebergs using this small remotely operated vehicle. Smith and company are returning to the Weddell Sea to learn more about how iceber... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=1424 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/476fde25bbf6c0441960f16b8f29e859921b9c2f572d149726db1c5d0c797fbe.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T13:18:15 | null | null | Crossing the Drake Passage between Punta Arenas, Chile, and the Antarctic Peninsula is a necessary evil for researchers who study the ecosystem. The ARSV Laurence M. Gould has made the rough sea trip countless times in support of science. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2006.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/media/grafx/icon-flag.gif | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Peter Rejcek A crane on the ARSV Laurence M. Gould lifts a Zodiac inflatable boat aboard the vessel. The Gould made a two-day port call at the station in January before leaving for a month-long cruise in support of the Palmer Long Term Ecological Research project.
All aboard Gould makes countless crossing... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=2006 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/427eab0eba4320545faab45135540a449e04870cf9f266a147589343350c830e.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T13:32:36 | null | null | Alison Murray studies tiny critters with a potentially big role in the marine ecosystem of the Southern Ocean surrounding Antarctica. She is interested in how bacterioplankton make their living in the Antarctic winter waters. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1403.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/science/images/microbes_station.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Alison Murray/GenEx2 Members of Alison Murray's field team in 2001 take water samples down to 45 meters off shore of Bonaparte Point on the Antarctic Peninsula. Murray will lead a team of scientists back to the Palmer Station area in July to study microbial processes in winter, using high-tech genetic too... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=1403 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/ad63a545b02bd3457aec80eaef65888c2ce2dd24afb4096278f3aecf3af67474.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T13:18:58 | null | null | The powerful 8.8-magnitude earthquake that struck central Chile Feb. 27 and spawned tsunami warnings did not affect any of the U.S. Antarctic Program research stations or research vessels. However, ongoing disruptions to Chilean infrastructure and transportation may delay an upcoming science cruise later this month. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2045.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/features/images/quake_boats.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Peter Rejcek Palmer Station sits at the edge of Anvers Island. The tsunami warning that resulted from the Feb. 27 earthquake in Chile prompted station personnel to initiate an emergency plan, pulling boats out of the water and moving material to higher ground.
Not shaken USAP personnel respond quickly to ... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=2045 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/05da787b982c82b512083d3cdfa217adefc37aff9a06df06a7d30ae81cbcaed3.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T12:51:53 | null | null | On April 25, New Zealand’s Scott Base crew invited McMurdo Station residents to make the two-kilometer trip over the hill and join them in celebrating ANZAC Day, a holiday honoring the fallen soldiers from the Australia and New Zealand Army Corps in World War I and subsequent conflicts. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D4159.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/features/images6/anzac-penguin.jpg | en | null | Day of remembrance | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Kira Morris Veteran Ben Armstrong raises the New Zealand flag at Scott Base during an ANZAC ceremony honoring the sacrifices of military personnel on April 25. Personnel from McMurdo Station were invited to attend and participate in the event.
Day of remembrance
McMurdo joins New Zealand neighbors for ANZ... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=4159 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/0517531f36af9671a59f7b51000891c6af12ae39be6a62fd8aa17a8fefd14019.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T13:28:18 | null | null | The South Pole Telescope is a bold experiment that has already made some big discoveries. But the latest feat involving the project is one researchers have no wish to repeat. For a few tense days during the 2010-11 season, about half of the towering telescope was jacked up more than a meter in the air to repair the azi... | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2434.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images2/spt_azimuth_bearing.jpg | en | null | Fixed on the future | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Peter Rejcek Equipment used to repair the South Pole Telescope is removed from the facility. Repairs to the telescope's azimuth will allow the instrument to turn smoothly as it searches the universe for galaxy clusters that will help scientists understand dark energy.
Fixed on the future South Pole Telesc... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=2434 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/56c29206865e0a225bada8d464cb1849c76d9170d38222812d87fc3f9f31fd27.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T13:27:21 | null | null | An international team of researchers has found evidence that parts of North America and East Antarctica were connected 1.1 billion years ago in an ancient supercontinent called Rodinia. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2497.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images2/CTAM_WINDOWSHOT.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Peter Rejcek/Antarctic Photo Library An aerial view of the central Transantarctic Mountains, which split East and West Antarctica. A paper published earlier this month suggests that part of East Antarctica was once joined to North America more than a billion years ago as part of a supercontinent called Ro... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=2497 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/62f82aa1b9eee6e603ce44b5c31a2c3adc304f1e133b7e448e013f4280f8b838.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T13:25:30 | null | null | Glaciologists plan to SPICE things up at the South Pole. The South Pole Ice Core (SPICE) project aims to retrieve an ice core 1,500 meters long beginning in the 2014-15 austral summer field season to reconstruct past climate to predict future changes. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2822.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/media/grafx/icon-flag.gif | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Gifford Wong/National Science Foundation Scientists Don Voigt examines an ice core extracted from a site in West Antarctica. A new U.S. project will extract a 1,500-meter-long ice core from near the geographic South Pole.
SPICE-ing it up
New project plans to retrieve South Pole ice core beginning in 2014-... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=2822 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/b8c6c8b14dd94cd3dd9745f1be6973fa5d89674c4923c04e211d247a062b5b06.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T13:14:14 | null | null | Hired to cook at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station for a year, Keith Reimink packed along a $300 movie camera. His intent was simply to capture on film an answer to the question: What’s it like to work in Antarctica? Now audiences at film festivals around the country are learning the answer. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2913.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/features/images4/NHAOfficialPoster2.jpg | en | null | No Horizon Anymore | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Eric Shirokoff Keith Reimink, a chef at the South Pole Station over the winter of 2009, made a documentary of his experience spending a year at the bottom of the world. "No Horizon Anymore" has played in film festivals from New Zealand to Alaska to Pittsburgh, Penn.
No Horizon Anymore
Documentary by forme... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=2913 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/e3de64d2956111fbeadf02126c91228acd18d9d3bb9c4c89894261b6f118fe47.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T13:31:52 | null | null | Construction of the world’s largest, and perhaps most unique, telescope is 50 percent complete. Drillers deployed the 18th string of digital sensors for the IceCube Neutrino Observatory array on Jan. 25, 2008. That means there are now 40 strings of digital optical modules buried up to 2,500 meters into the ice around t... | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1366.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/science/images/icecube.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Peter Rejcek IceCube drillers Eric "Bear" Coplin, left, and Graham Tilbury monitor an ice hole as the hotwater drill ascends. Tilbury is cutting and removing tape that fasten the hose to a cable that supports it. Each hole is about 2,500 meters deep.
Halfway done IceCube project drills 18 holes, begins co... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=1366 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/cc724118b064430920fba9677a7051024e58d2e7331282fb491467f0ee2837dc.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T13:26:48 | null | null | The end of a mini ice age 11,500 years ago was marked by high concentrations of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas. Scientists studying climate change want to know where all that methane came from. They just need old ice. Lots of old ice. And they have found a nearly limitless supply of it at the top of Taylor Glacier. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2467.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images2/severinghaus_drill.jpg | en | null | On the surface | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Edward Brook/Oregon State University Drillers use the Blue Ice Drill, an agile drill capable of retrieving cores about 24 centimeters in diameter to depths up to 15 meters in solid ice, on Taylor Glacier. The drill was built by the Ice Drilling and Design Operations group at the University of Wisconsin-Ma... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=2467 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/abe86006043ead32f2d6a9f7f79aebcff6545c9034fe7a3bce515a819daf7e89.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T13:24:13 | null | null | When solar wind lashes the Earth’s upper atmosphere, the polar regions react with a brilliant light show known as auroras. But do the ends of the Earth react similarly? Scientists are installing an array of instruments in remote East Antarctica to find out. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2903.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images4/pole-space-weather-field-HF-antenna.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Hyomin Kim Scientists at Virginia Tech install a high-frequency dipole antenna in East Antarctica as part of an autonomous instrument package that will monitor the upper atmosphere to learn more about solar storms between the polar regions.
Opposite ends
Array in East Antarctica to monitor space weather s... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=2903 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/ed90411b8d8ae9d07c0f796bf6bd04fd7d13e87758d3b775f6dcca7929e91688.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T13:28:27 | null | null | For 15 years, U.S. researchers in Antarctica have watched the ebb and flow of Adélie penguin colony populations around the Ross Sea. Now they are looking at what determines breeding success at the individual level, which may help them predict how the penguins may fare in the future as climate change re-writes the scrip... | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2360.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/media/grafx/icon-flag.gif | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Jean Pennycook Adélie penguins squabble at the Cape Royds colony on Ross Island. Scientists studying the population dynamics of these seabirds for the last 15 years have noted some "super breeders" seem to be consistently successful in producing chicks that reach adulthood.
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] | 2016-08-26T13:31:17 | null | null | It doesn’t get any better than the McMurdo Dry Valleys if you want to get at the deep roots of a volcano’s magma system, to see how the liquid rocks pushes its way through the Earth’s crust. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1303.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/science/images/Marsh science group.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Paul Morin Bruce Marsh, third from the right, and his science team study a map from their camp in Bull Pass in the McMurdo Dry Valleys during the 2006-07 summer season. The team returns to the field again this year.
Breaking new ground
Theory suggests magma events fracture earth in such a way as to create... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=1303 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/0a4339e069a617e4910a1ef7f97aff102cffdb1135241d0b56e414be94c682ef.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T13:26:50 | null | null | Two climate scientists at The Ohio State University, Lonnie Thompson and Ellen Mosley-Thompson, known for their paleoclimate research using ice cores drilled from around the world, will be among nine individuals honored by The Franklin Institute in Philadelphia later this year at an awards ceremony. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2572.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images3/thompsonlonnieellen.jpg | en | null | In good company | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Ellen Mosley-Thompson/Ohio State University Ellen Mosley-Thompson, left, assists cutting an ice core drilled along the Antarctic Peninsula with Roberto Filippi and Benjamin Vicencio, during fieldwork in 2010. Mosley-Thompson and her husband Lonnie Thompson will be among nine individuals honored by The Fra... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=2572 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/c42143430fc48455cb92353c1633ed3f92c71712a83f3a2574ad5e54927fdcb1.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T13:22:40 | null | null | A team of atmospheric scientists, led by Lars Kalnajs at the University of Colorado at Boulder and Peter DeCarlo at Drexel University, are making some of the first real-time measurements of aerosol size and composition in Antarctica. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D4096.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images6/zodiac-field-site-midnight.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo by Andrew Slater Scientist Lars Kalnajs works on aerosol instruments in Hut 17 on the sea ice. Researchers are interested in characterizing the natural aerosols carried by the winds that sweep across Antarctica to learn how they effect and are affected by snow and other factors.
Salt spray
Research on the transpo... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=4096 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/a2c2262d6cf9af93b5af68173a5c51400dfcc1f9498c860e459e3bbfedcfab25.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T13:22:18 | null | null | The recent announcement of evidence of flowing, liquid water just below the Martian surface made headlines across the globe. When asked what this water might be like, NASA scientist Chris McKay pointed to Antarctica’s briny Don Juan Pond in the McMurdo Dry Valleys. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D4182.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images6/Newton-Crater.jpg | en | null | The Dry Valleys Helped Scientists Understand a Wet Mars | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Arizona A 3D projection of satellite data showing the dark briny streaks of water flowing, also known as recurring slope lineae down the Walls of Garni Crater on Mars.
The Dry Valleys Helped Scientists Understand a Wet Mars
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] | 2016-08-26T13:24:17 | null | null | One of the world’s largest emperor penguin colonies and the first documented Antarctic silverfish nursery have been given special protection under the Antarctic Treaty System that governs the international management of the southernmost continent and surrounding region. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2873.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images4/LEOPARD_1.JPG | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Dr. Paul Ponganis/Antarctic Photo Library Emperor penguins leap out of the water near their colony at Cape Washington. The colony and a nearby silverfish nursery received special protection under the Antarctic Treaty earlier this year.
Protected area
New ASPA site at Cape Washington conserves penguins, si... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=2873 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/d415a0e0bbef0492da196dcce8bf20b2c661a37b59f1d1e8398889db31250a72.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:19:13 | null | null | A pair of turbo-propped airplanes landed at the South Pole Station on Oct. 17, officially ending eight months of isolation for the world's southernmost research base in Antarctica. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2282.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/features/images/pole_firstbasler.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Emanuel Jacobi Perfect landing Arrival of Basler aircraft marks the end of winter isolation at South Pole The loneliness of the long-distance winter-over at the South Pole Station is finally over. Two Basler BT-67 aircraft landed at the U.S. Antarctic Program's southernmost research base on Oct. 16 (local... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=2282 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/c615848adc70d293d9452808176d64f43f0da41f59fe22f3345ac2b3edd00616.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T13:17:33 | null | null | The long winter for those hunkered down at McMurdo Station is finally over. The first flights of the 2011-12 summer field season landed Oct. 4 (local time) at a runway constructed on the nearby sea ice in McMurdo Sound, a day later than scheduled due to earlier blizzard conditions in that part of Antarctica. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2523.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/features/images2/season1112_c17_flight.jpg | en | null | 'Tis the season | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Jean Varner The first U.S. Air Force C-17 of the summer field season in Antarctica arrived on Oct. 4 (local time) on the sea ice runway near McMurdo Station. 2011-12 promises to be another busy field season, with more than 100 research projects planned.
'Tis the season First flights arrive for start of 20... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=2523 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/0adec971526086f557456390eae47047626d80899f5c4db2ec3b629cb8c6ed02.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T13:26:07 | null | null | A new study, funded by the National Science Foundation and published in the journal Nature this month, suggests that rises in global temperature follow increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide. The finding complements ongoing research by scientists studying a new ice core extracted from West Antarctica. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2644.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images3/WAISICESLICE.jpg | en | null | CO2 leads the way | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Chad Naughton/Antarctic Photo Library A scientist cuts an ice core extracted from West Antarctica during the 2008-09 field season. Research on the climate record contained in the ice will help scientists refine their understanding of the relationship between temperature and CO2. A new study suggests that ... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=2644 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/3000d89ad8ac37b30a9032ae6215957265f9041cc3c7bd5ed6f721101f87d93b.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T13:25:31 | null | null | It's almost scary when it works according to plan. The first support staff arrived at the remote WAIS Divide field camp in West Antarctica on Oct. 26, only a day after the first LC-130 flight was scheduled to land in support of a multi-year ice-coring project. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2764.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images3/wais-camp-satellite.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: ©DigitalGlobe Inc.; Image provided by National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency Commercial Imagery Program A satellite image of the WAIS Divide field camp captured on Oct. 14, 2012. The first staff reached the camp on Oct. 26, an unusually early arrival for a region where weather usually delays flights for ... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=2764 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/d7ec3538f054de07bf414cd92f4b0cab3e7747bd06003e151617622de3ea321d.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T13:26:03 | null | null | A new study examining nearly 40 years of satellite imagery has revealed that the floating ice shelves of a critical portion of West Antarctica are steadily losing their grip on adjacent bay walls, potentially amplifying an already accelerating loss of ice to the sea. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2638.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images3/then-and-now-350x561.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Michael Studinger, NASA Operation IceBridge Rifts appear along the northern shear margin of Pine Island Glacier in 2011 during a flight by NASA's IceBridge campaign. Ice shelves in West Antarctica are losing their grip onto rocky bay walls or surrounding ice, causing them to fracture and retreat inland, a... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=2638 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/15202bc094227b57d1789d7d42945613008c7b0a3494098c7b1a0545441b3d70.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T13:20:59 | null | null | The New York Air National Guard, which flies the ski-equipped Lockheed C-130 Hercules for missions around the continent on behalf of the U.S. Antarctic Program, has several initiatives in the works to make the unpredictable Antarctic environment a little less challenging while improving fuel and maintenance efficiencie... | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2FcontentHandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1520.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/features/images/130_jato.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Senior Airman Julius Delos Reyes/Air Force The 418th Flight Test Squadron replaced the four-bladed props on a Wyoming Air National Guard C-130H Hercules with eight-bladed propellers to test their efficiency for use in the U.S. Antarctic Program.
LC-130 upgrades National Guard looks to improve 'skibird' ef... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contentHandler.cfm?id=1520 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/673b79348063d16ccca8877693f313b8fa869ff8472eb258cfa79aa78dd5b9df.json |
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"Kris Kuenning"
] | 2016-08-26T13:31:47 | null | null | Once a week at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) South Pole research site, Station Chief Jason Seifert or technician Glen Kinoshita walk into an area called the Clean Air Sector with a suitcase of glass bottles. Extending a black rod into the sky, they fish for the cleanest air in the world. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2FcontentHandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1234.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/science/images/ARO (top image).jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Kris Kuenning NOAA Station Chief Jason Seifert fills a glass container on the roof of the Atmospheric Research Observatory at the South Pole. The samples are shipped to research institutes around the world for analysis.
Cleanest air in the world
South Pole observatory provides baseline for detecting pollu... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contentHandler.cfm?id=1234 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/695abdfae5224cbeff63c87ba60ca32480cb0b2a6045ed83f29fcb667b5dbae9.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T13:18:26 | null | null | The National Science Foundation is asking the U.S. Congress for $7.4 billion for the 2011 fiscal year, an 8 percent increase over 2010. The NSF’s Office of Polar Program, which manages the U.S. Antarctic Program (USAP) and funds Arctic research, would increase to $528 million, 17 percent above the FY 2010 level of $451... | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2055.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/features/images/FRYXELLRENEWABLEPOWER.jpg | en | null | NSF FY11 budget request | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Robyn Waserman/Antarctic Photo Library McMurdo Station after a summer dusting of snow. The research station is the logistics hub of the U.S. Antarctic Program. The NSF has asked Congress for $2 million to help fund energy efficiencies at McMurdo, among other budget requests.
NSF FY11 budget request Agency... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=2055 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/9acfc364a0b1785f90388c7a4b4e1a9bebfdc1b32258b5595b91b99c9bcbe4d6.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T13:29:09 | null | null | Eugene Domack was about six hours away from leaving Chile and returning to his family after working more than two months in Antarctica when the e-mails started flying. Instead, he made the difficult decision of booking a ticket out of Santiago to Concepcion, near the epicenter of one of the worst earthquakes in recorde... | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2137.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images/larissa_earthquake_seismic.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Claudio Núñez/Wikipedia Commons A collapsed building in Concepcion, Chile, following the Feb. 27, 2010 earthquake. Scientists responded to the quake by deploying a suite of instruments to measure aftershocks in the hopes of better understanding and predicting future earthquakes.
Lasting experience Scienti... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=2137 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/590a856c1d41c1419cfb754ed885b574ca140cdbe26a00345b847a333cd2a4e7.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T12:59:34 | null | null | Stormy weather. It’s been a familiar tune the last couple of months at McMurdo Station, where more than 62 inches of snow fell in August and windy conditions caused delays to several flights scheduled that month. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D4076.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/features/images5/ground-blizzard.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Alasdair Turner A ground blizzard sweeps across the ice shelf that leads to Ross Island, where McMurdo Station and New Zealand's Scott Base are located. August and September were stormy months in the region.
Stormy weather
Heavy snowfall, strong winds hit McMurdo in August and September
Stormy weather. It... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=4076 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/7fa717bbcc6c7910ff8324bc61e0552b293dd4043a372a21e807187d38b83115.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T13:23:47 | null | null | A team of scientists has completed the most accurate and precise reconstruction to date of historic volcanic sulfate emissions in the Southern Hemisphere using multiple ice cores from Antarctica. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D4045.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images5/mount-erebus-smokes.jpg | en | null | Out of the ashes | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Peter Rejcek/Antarctic Photo Library Smoke rises from Erebus volcano near McMurdo Station. Scientists have used Antarctic ice cores to reconstruct the history of volcanic emissions in the Southern Hemisphere for the last 2,000 years.
Out of the ashes
Scientists use Antarctic ice cores to create new record... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=4045 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/5bf9202185503c4fce673689e5881638dad019ee14608662c6b6171ab61bafc5.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T13:26:23 | null | null | Its five-year mission: To survey the early universe for massive galaxy clusters, a search designed to understand more about one of cosmology’s greatest mysteries, dark energy. Mission complete. Now the South Pole Telescope will begin a new quest to learn about the exponential expansion of the universe right after the B... | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2623.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/media/grafx/icon-flag.gif | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Peter Rejcek Construction workers on a lift assemble the metal superstructure for the ground shield on the South Pole Telescope during the 2011-12 field season. The shield will eliminate ground reflection inteference as the telescope begins a new experiment on cosmic inflation.
Mission complete South Pole... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=2623 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/692a9c2009bef7769db45b0f20a3ab115ec4ff6c061f1075860fc4a376559200.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T13:32:54 | null | null | Antarctica is a tough place to predict the weather. A new forecasting model used around the world may help forecasters improve their predictions, which are essential for safe operations on the continent. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1503.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/science/images/aws.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Polar Meteorology Group/Byrd Polar Research Center Former Byrd Polar Meteorology group member Ryan Fogt, left, and Shelley Knuth, with the University of Wisconsin-Madison, install an acoustic depth gauge on the Windless Bight Automatic Weather Station in January 2006. Weather models rely on data from thes... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=1503 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/51d053c553d0b998bf891472982e366a88556305306d32bb491169bf320cf100.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T13:15:23 | null | null | No one likes to visit the dentist. So Dr. Bob Koff makes it a point to spend as much time among the McMurdo Station community as he can outside the dental clinic. It's not a surprise: Community service has been a cornerstone of the well-traveled dentist's entire career. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2787.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/media/grafx/icon-flag.gif | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Peter Rejcek Dr. Bob Koff performs dental work at the McMurdo Station medical clinic. The well-traveled dentist has been on a number of humanitarian missions during his career, and spends many of his off-hours doing community service at the station.
Community roots
McMurdo de ntist provides services in an... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=2787 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/6cf2d5676fa8f585c7a1aa739949da4bf59a07409a1a7d4155f6f8138b28eaab.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T13:23:11 | null | null | Large populations of king crabs, first detected less than a decade ago, have scientists concerned that the seafloor organisms along a large swath of the continental shelf may be under threat from the voracious crustaceans. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D4053.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/media/grafx/icon-flag.gif | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: SeaSled A species of king crab, Paralomis birsteini, on the continental slope off the Antarctic Peninsula. The discovery of the shell-breaking crustaceans has scientists worried about the threat to seafloor organisms on the continental shelf.
Invasive species
Scientists assess threat of king crab populati... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=4053 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/7cd543abedd6aa04b18e1677dc85ccbe589735c11347baf926a04b63b363d126.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T13:18:01 | null | null | Palmer Station is a small place that seems to loom larger-than-life for those who live and work there for any amount of time. Palmer Station is part town, part laboratory and part warehouse. About half of those who live there are the carpenters, electricians, cooks, mechanics, technicians and others who keep Palmer run... | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2125.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/features/images/palmerstation_linehandlers.JPG | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Peter Rejcek Palmer Station, bottom left, clings to the side of Anvers Island. Beyond is a string of small islands that are home to penguins, seals and other wildlife in the productive summer months of the southern summer.
Palmer Station USAP research base still going strong after 40 years
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] | 2016-08-26T13:22:47 | null | null | Two years ago, a team of scientists, engineers and technicians broke into a subglacial lake nearly a kilometer underneath the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. Now the group has for the first time drilled through an ice shelf near where the ice is attached to the seafloor, a critical area of ice-ocean dynamics known as the gro... | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D4113.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images6/wizzard-Borehole-Doctor.jpg | en | null | In the Zone (page 1) | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Reed Scherer Instruments are deployed down the borehole at the Ross Ice Shelf grounding zone. Scientists are studying the dynamics at play where the ice shelf is vulnerable to becoming destabilized, which would cause glaciers to flow faster and sea level to rise. In the process, they found life in a remot... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=4113 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/c5ce587c7c99b22e72e54b300d10a66456e8a9b10aed4b20cb5596620b692af9.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T13:24:20 | null | null | A NASA program that measures ice sheets, sea ice and glaciers in the polar regions will be based out of Antarctica for the first time this year since it started collecting data in 2009. Operation IceBridge will fly airborne missions across parts of the continent from an airfield built on sea ice near McMurdo Station. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2937.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/media/grafx/icon-flag.gif | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Michael Studinger, NASA/Antarctic Photo Library Glaciers and rock outcrops in Marie Byrd Land, West Antarctica during IceBridge flight on Oct. 17, 2011 on NASA's DC-8 aircraft. NASA's Operation IceBridge is an airborne science mission to study Earth's polar ice. The campaign will be based at McMurdo Stati... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=2937 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/714982094703eccee28e4e52a4d2b7d37e6593197e49375e880442274cb36ea3.json |
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"Mike Green",
"Special To The"
] | 2016-08-26T13:21:29 | null | null | Mike Green spent 17 months in Iraq before joining the U.S. Antarctic Program as a cargo handler. He reflects on the disparities between the overseas assignments. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2FcontentHandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1218.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/features/images/mike green (top image).jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Courtesy of Mike Green Mike Green, center, spent 17 months in Iraq, where he immersed himself in the culture, before heading to much colder climes in Antarctica.
Road less traveled paved with sand and snow
Mike Green compares the disparities between his overseas assignments in Iraq and Antarctica
My trave... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contentHandler.cfm?id=1218 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/eb5144d995327e9d199bb206d17abc5189333bf3aa86879e59b9a2852b030fbc.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:27:31 | null | null | A little worm that inhabits organically enriched sediment in the subfreezing waters of Antarctica may help shed light on how all organisms interact with their environment on a genetic level. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2538.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images2/worms_labwork.jpg | en | null | Early bird gets the worm | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Adam Marsh Scientist Stacy Kim collects a sediment sample under the sea ice that may contain a marine worm that researchers are using to study genetic adaptations to the cold polar environment, which may help shed light on how all organisms interact with their environment on a genetic level.
Early bird ge... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=2538 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/23d9390f349f3f57b74dd48b11f23cda61deb9fcae544b75be6ce4221e6c4113.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:21:18 | null | null | People planning to spend the Antarctic winter at the South Pole have to do more than pack a few extra pairs of warm socks. They also have to be prepared for any emergency - including fires. Many South Pole winterovers attend fire school prior to deploying to help protect the station against a catastrophic blaze. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2FcontentHandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1210.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/features/images/SP fire school with Dave (top image).jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Peter Rejcek Dave Breitenfield, center, helps direct an exercise for South Pole firefighter trainees at a facility in Arvada, Colo. Breitenfield, a certified firefighter, will be stationed at the Pole during the austral summer.
Learning the basics
South Pole staff and scientists train as firefighters to p... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contentHandler.cfm?id=1210 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/6c1e1ae0d7aa49c947104d146489ee7d758cdd3322bced04012e6c8f9f36a31f.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:13:37 | null | null | Some get excited for Oscar nominee lists. Others scrutinize March Madness brackets like they were financial statements. For the U.S. Antarctic Program, the closest equivalent might be Bill Spindler’s annually update list of South Pole winter-over statistics. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D3007.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/media/grafx/icon-flag.gif | en | null | It all adds up | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Shelly Finley Members of the 2014 South Pole winter-over crew carry the flags from the 12 original signatory nations to the Antarctic Treaty inside the station in anticipation of the six-month-long winter season.
It all adds up
Latest South Pole winter-over crew includes two people with 10 seasons each
So... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=3007 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/e7913b4dcb2add923ab76b0bca5e4d22fc65a15a8865fff3bb8975b11a1f2705.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:15:27 | null | null | Elbow room. It’s not something one would think to be lacking at South Pole. But the growth of the world's southernmost research station over the past half-decade finally came to a halt last season. Now, the South Pole Station is settling into operational mode as originally planned. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2905.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/media/grafx/icon-flag.gif | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Elaine Hood/Antarctic Photo Library The South Pole Station in January 2013, five years after its official dedication. The aerodynamic design of the elevated station allows air to flow underneath the structure, which helps to control the snowdrift around the building.
Moving along
South Pole Station settle... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=2905 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/e68bddb1912a678b114b9534da8e5bafb703fa2437352fe6834b7accbfdd9221.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:24:59 | null | null | It’s life. But is it life as we know it? That question will be answered in the months ahead, but it appears that the first evidence that something lives in a lake covered by nearly a kilometer of ice in West Antarctica emerged at the end of January. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2810.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images4/wissard-lake-sediment-camera.jpg | en | null | Life under the ice | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Alberto Behar, JPL/ASU; underwater camera funded by NSF/NASA The first view of the bottom of subglacial Lake Whillans. Soft lake sediments crumble as the WISSARD underwater camera touches the bottom. The area viewed in the image is about 0.15 meters (six inches) across. Samples from the lake water suggest... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=2810 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/63473a33098dc267df5d88c9aa6babfe2ae8de69b0315740bc1491e7573dda60.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:30:46 | null | null | Few ships ever make it to the front of the Pine Island Glacier because of the near-constant blockade of sea ice in the adjoining bay. But a team of U.S. and British scientists not only got up close to the fast-moving glacier, but even went below it using a robotic sub, one of the first such explorations. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1752.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images/pig_sub.jpg | en | null | Pine Island Cruise (page 1) | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: K. Leonard Scientists are lowered to an ice floe from the Nathaniel B. Palmer during a science cruise to Pine Island Bay earlier this year. The team is interested in learning more about 'warm' water coming up from below that appears to be speeding the flow of Pine Island Glacier, which is contributing to ... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=1752 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/5bcc53c74b7cc2de0576feb6bc4d73ddf00c402087a50214ba7f89474bca02d6.json |
[
"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:29:19 | null | null | There are mighty forests in Antarctica. Just don’t expect to see them poking through the ice and snow. The forests are underwater, composed of several species of huge brown algae. This unique marine ecosystem has been at the heart of an ongoing study for more than a decade. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2122.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images/amler_substrate.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Maggie Amsler Divers Kate Schoenrock and Chuck Amsler prepare to release a concrete substrate from the boat's davit and escort it down to the seafloor as part of an experiment to understand the marine ecosystem around Palmer Station.
Underwater forests of Antarctica Scientists dive deep into unlocking mys... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=2122 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/9d016aa0920c8c4e3be5c5011983ca1130876cf57c6342f5ef3d0012e5f1e299.json |
[
"Michael Lucibella"
] | 2016-08-26T13:21:55 | null | null | Using everything from pickaxes to helicopters, paleontologists scoured multiple islands off the Antarctic Peninsula in February and March for the remains of prehistoric beasts and returned with a trove of fossils from the end of the time of the dinosaurs. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D4229.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images6/rossisland-banner.jpg | en | null | Scientists Recover an Abundance of Fossils and Geologic Data from Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Meng Jin Paleontologists walk along at the base of a hill, scouring the ground for fossils.
Scientists Recover an Abundance of Fossils and Geologic Data from Antarctica
Paleontologists return with a big haul after nearly two months of fossil hunting off the Antarctic Peninsula.
Using everything from picka... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=4229 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/94aff92ea6b54b059c39a834dddb5cbebf554ce89dea609bd08fbabce4bfe2a7.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:19:07 | null | null | Dr. Joanne Feldman had no intentions of following her father into medicine. The job seemed to be nothing but grind, but she never saw the amazing part of it. Now she works as the sole physician at Palmer Station for the 2009-10 summer field season. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2066.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/features/images/palmer%20doc.jpg | en | null | Diving into medicine | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Peter Rejcek Dr. Joanne Feldman checks an oxygen bottle in the Palmer Station medical clinic. Feldman started working on her medical degree at the age of 36 after falling in love with wilderness medicine. She now travels the world as a doctor.
Diving into medicine Nomadic Palmer doctor takes her skills ar... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=2066 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/852d7b17ada0805869b2e8ad4b595b41f0c23e0947a7542089618468f6c03b40.json |
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